I never understood the "no recordings" bit. I get not having distractions in the gallery, but not allowing C-SPAN or something from recording something that is a public hearing that is fully transcribed seems just odd.

nmrsnr:I never understood the "no recordings" bit. I get not having distractions in the gallery, but not allowing C-SPAN or something from recording something that is a public hearing that is fully transcribed seems just odd.

nmrsnr:I never understood the "no recordings" bit. I get not having distractions in the gallery, but not allowing C-SPAN or something from recording something that is a public hearing that is fully transcribed seems just odd.

Concerns about lawyers or even judges grandstanding for the cameras/6'o'clock news.

fusillade762:nmrsnr: I never understood the "no recordings" bit. I get not having distractions in the gallery, but not allowing C-SPAN or something from recording something that is a public hearing that is fully transcribed seems just odd.

Witty_Retort:The audio recordings of all oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court of the United States are available to the public at the end of each argument week. The audio recordings are posted on Fridays after Conference.

What antics? The guy being loud in the Supreme Court? We could debate if it is hurting but we can agree it is not complaining much of anything. We get one sentence about his protest and that's it. Also he was protesting the wrong case, it was a patent case not about finance.

All this talk about Supreme Court video made me realize I didn't really know what Marshall sounded/looked like. This is actually a quite compelling clip from Nightline in 1991 with many recognizable characters from today, including a certain Trans-Am driving VP.

ROBO-Jesus:You American's are weird. Canadian Supreme Court hearings are often aired live (and always available via online stream) through our CSPAN equivalent.

That's sort of the point most of us are trying to make: let the public see how the Supreme Court really works. You don't have to necessarily show them live as it happens (in case SCOTUS is really worried about grandstanding, they could have time to edit that crap out), but it's time to open things up a bit.

dookdookdook:Satanic_Hamster: Concerns about lawyers or even judges grandstanding for the cameras/6'o'clock news.

Nah, who would be pathetic enough to grandstand for C-SPAN?

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Oh, right.

Or Newt Gingrich, back in the 1980s. I understand Newt would hold forth to an empty room late at night, but the cameras wouldn't show it was empty, and the right wing found out about it by word of mouth and tuned in.

sprgrss:3) Citizen's United was correctly decided. Instead of trying to cap outside advertising during elections, fight for disclosure laws

No, it wasn't. The idea that money is speech is a fallacy. Money enables speech, and there is a major difference. Citizen's United also holds that money spent on an election by an outside group does not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. Which is so amazingly laughable that we would give a 4th grader an F for any paper that contained that assertion.

It destroyed precedent, it tramples over the prerogatives of Congress- it's a steaming pile of shait. Read Justice Steven's dissent for a fuller accounting of just how awful that thing was.

desertgeek:ROBO-Jesus: You American's are weird. Canadian Supreme Court hearings are often aired live (and always available via online stream) through our CSPAN equivalent.

That's sort of the point most of us are trying to make: let the public see how the Supreme Court really works. You don't have to necessarily show them live as it happens (in case SCOTUS is really worried about grandstanding, they could have time to edit that crap out), but it's time to open things up a bit.

Someone needs to get Clarence Thomas on camera. It's been well known that he never asks questions (the idea being he already knows what his decision is before the arguments), but recent reports have said that now he doesn't even pretend to listen. He closes his eyes and turns his head toward the ceiling the entire time.